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    Z-Flex Sights

    I posted a contest at my website about these...



    Seriously, where do you even begin?

    The flip-up sight: why would you put a flip-up "fast into action" sight on a gun? Either it's fast into action, or it needs to be flipped up. It can't be both.

    The low profile sight: you realize they're taller than any suppressor sights on the market, right?

    Overall I just don't get it. Apparently you're supposed to center the front dot inside the big oval when you need to take a fast shot but align the front dot with the rear dots when you need precision. At 7yd does anyone want to guess how high the gun is going to be shooting if you center the front sight in the rear oval? I'm guessing at least twelve inches.

    I'm all for innovation. And I'm a lot more picky about my sights than most people, too, so I'm not criticizing people who want to find a better solution. But the world really doesn't need a bunch of people running around with sights that will essentially force them to miss the target, do we? Or will these be another of those they don't work in IPSC but they magically work great when someone is trying to kill you gimmicks?
    Last edited by ToddG; 04-17-2013 at 03:28 PM.

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    Member orionz06's Avatar
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    The best thing about them is they are not Big Dots.
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    Site Supporter Jay Cunningham's Avatar
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    Someone needs to Photochop the Eye of Sauron into the Low Profile.

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    Holy cow watch the video:


    The woman evaluating talks about how easy they are to use just by looking at the target (at about 1:10). By 1:20 you see that what she's really doing is using the red take-up laser on the SIRT pistol to walk her shot into the bullseye. She's not actually using the Z-Flex sight at all... and says so, but somehow thinks that makes them wonderful.

    Just awesome!

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    We've put these sights on here, but you can ignore them.

    Wow! When I ignore the sights I don't notice them!

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    If only they looked more like a Viking ship..

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    Quote Originally Posted by orionz06 View Post
    The best thing about them is they are not Big Dots.
    I like my Big Dots.

    I don't like these, ah, contraptions...


    There's no comparison between the two - the Big Dots look downright sane compared with these wings attached where a sight belongs....

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    Butters, the d*** shooter Byron's Avatar
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    Z-Flex Sights; all the bulk of a red dot, without all that wasteful precision.

    Coming to a drop-leg near you!

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    Quote Originally Posted by orionz06 View Post
    AWESOME.

    It also looks a hell of a lot more shootable that way.
    --Josh
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